Michael Bleher

@subthaumic.bsky.social

Postdoc @structures_hd @UniHeidelberg. Physics, Maths, and Science. 🔗 michael.bleher.me

Kudos to Cyril & Alex (@alexandr.bsky.social) for leading this! Glad to have been part of it. This is a sharp field guide to low-dimensional embeddings in the sciences. TL;DR: great for exploration; mind trade-offs; show your working; and run quantitative checks to validate what you see (& infer!)

Alex Diaz-Papkovich@alexandr.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Last year I met a bunch of great researchers who work with high-dimensional data at a Dagstuhl seminar. This week we put out a preprint about the history and philosophy of low-dimensional embedding methods, their applications, their challenges, and their possible future arxiv.org/abs/2508.15929

The participants of Dagstuhl Seminar 24122 standing on steps outside (from https://www.dagstuhl.de/24122)

New blog post about an exploratory project that’s been stuck in my head for a while. Directed simplicial complexes from coherent counterfactual ablations ... as a way to trace superpostions of distributed feature representations on polysemantic neurons in artificial neural nets. 1/2

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I've finally uploaded the remaining two parts of my PhD thesis to the arXiv! These papers hadn’t been on there before but are now available as self-contained articles for easier reference. They’re about gauge theory, knot invariants, and a conjecture by Witten. 1/3